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753 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
28 januari 2025
The RP2350 from Raspberry Pi is a dual dual-core (Cortex-M33 and Hazard 3 RISC V) microcontroller with extensive peripherals. Some of the Raspberry Pi team (James Adams, Chris Boross, Liam Fraser, Luke Wren) join Chris to discuss how the chip evolved from the RP2040, including interesting security and lower power enhancements. Lees meer
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A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes
21 januari 2025
Stephen Hawes started Opulo, a company that builds the Lumen Benchtop Pick and Place. Opulo designs open source hardware and sane software for building your own PCBs in your lab.
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Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab
23 december 2024
This week Chris and Dave discuss the changes at Intel, being in control data in your home lab, bogus copyright claims for repair videos, and more!
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Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture
10 december 2024
A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media.
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Troubleshooting is the skill
20 november 2024
Chris and Dave discuss updated house wiring, making smart relays capable of switching power, how to design a linear supply, and using AI tools to help troubleshoot code (but NOT layout)
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Your Mind Is The Tool
6 november 2024
Chris and Dave discuss troubleshooting a dead short in a PCB, the slow march of time, retirements, whether 2 layers is sufficient on PCBs, and much more!
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Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel
31 oktober 2024
Lukas Henkel, CEO of OV Tech, joins Chris to talk about high speed design while utilizing incredibly small form factors. They discuss open source SIPs, a CM4 replacement board, FEM modeling, and more!
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Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks
21 oktober 2024
Chris and Dave discuss identifying boards, amazing rocket catches, recent travel to trade shows, the impacts of the floods on the supply chain, EV charging, and more!
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Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon
11 oktober 2024
Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about the engineering of designing and launching satellites!
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All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya
1 oktober 2024
Katerina Galitskaya is a Senior Antenna Engineer who is currently designing base station antennas. She joins Chris to talk about simulating, visualizing, and thinking about the design of antennas. Listen for everyday design rules and stories of interesting antenna designs. Lees meer
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Watt Is The Deal
23 september 2024
This week Dave and Chris talk about Meshtastic (a meshing layer on top of LoRa), new scope specs, cellular modems, power, and a new Embedded Conference in the US.
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Moving House (And Lab)
3 september 2024
Dave and Chris record together after a long hiatus because Chris spent the summer moving boxes between two houses and reorganizing his lab. Also hardware livestreams, open source hardware, new battery storage, layoffs, and more!
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Changing Course with Shawn Hymel
9 augustus 2024
Shawn Hymel is an engineer and content creator who recently left his developer relations job at Edge Impulse to work on developing courses full time
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Turtles as a Service
25 juli 2024
Dave and Chris return to talk electronics trade shows, API tools, solar and batteries, automation, and more!
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Lifelong Learning with Bitluni
15 juli 2024
Bitluni joins Chris on The Amp Hour to discuss FPGAs, ESP32 projects, custom silicon, building around memes, and continually challenging yourself to learn something new.
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Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn
30 juni 2024
Matt Venn returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the successes (and learnings) from many additional runs of TinyTapeout, a shared project service sitting on top of a multi product wafer service. Matt also talks about a forthcoming analog ASIC design class on Zero to Asic, his online course. Lees meer
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NDA Sideshow
20 juni 2024
Dave and Chris talk about the letdown of signing an NDA and seeing “behind the curtain”. Also inverters, programming tools, pricing changes at Altium, and old school web stuff.
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Engineering Careers with Circuit Break & James Lewis
14 juni 2024
Chris joins the Circuit Break podcast (Parker Dillman, Stephen Kraig) along with James Lewis to talk about engineering careers. This show will also be posted as episode 435 of the Circuit Break Podcast
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Freelance PCB Design with Petr Dvorak
7 juni 2024
Petr Dvorak is a freelance PCB designer and a prolific sharer of knowledge on LInkedIn. He joins Chris to discuss electronic microscopes, traveling to Shenzhen, revision control, KiCad (of course), and much more!
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50.0000 Ohms
31 mei 2024
Chris and Dave discuss controlled impedance board traces, classic hacker movies, Location APIs, CHIPS act beneficiaries, power problems in houses, and more!
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Long Distance with CNLohr-a
23 mei 2024 · 1 uur 31 min
CNLohr returns to The Amp Hour to talk about LoRa and implementing a solution using harmonics coming out of a standard microcontroller’s GPIO
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Good Energy Citizen
8 mei 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
This week Chris and Dave discuss EV charging, chip fabs, manufacturing, large airliners, power storage, and more!
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Really long needle nose pliers
25 april 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Dave and Chris talk trade shows, demos, light up hardware, bluetooth, obsolete processors, sustaining engineering, and more
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Simulating doors falling off
4 april 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
This week Dave and Chris talk about upcoming demos, bluetooth, car troubles, new silicon, parts in the lab, and more!
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Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja
26 maart 2024 · 57 min
Carl Bugeja joins Chris to talk about building PCB motors and actuators, starting a new business, documenting build processes on YouTube, manufacturing flexible circuits, and much more!
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The non-Stinky Car
20 maart 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Dave and Chris discuss EVs, adapting power tool batteries for projects on the bench, robots, software updates, and more!
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Blogging Electronics with Pallav Aggarwal
11 maart 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
Pallav Aggarwal of CAPUF Embedded joins Chris to talk about blogging about learning electronics and helping others learn along the way! Pallav does teardowns, chip walkthroughs (like on the CH32V003), Linux projects, custom hardware, and more!
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My Toothbrush Is Broadcasting
5 maart 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Chris and Dave discuss SPICE in CAD programs, new software releases, startup paperwork, crazy smarthome stuff, and toothbrushes that give away your data.
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Altium...Acquired!
20 februari 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Dave and Chris talk through Renesas acquiring Altium and all its implications. Also Dave gives a history of Altium and they discuss how the industry might change (or not).
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Uncle Al's Eating Garbage Again
13 februari 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
This week Chris and Dave discuss relativistic time differences, building with RISC V components, RF modules, silly consumer hardware, underwater electronics, and more!
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Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski
5 februari 2024 · 1 uur 23 min
Keith Burzinski of Nabu Casa works on ESPhome and making it easier to attach custom hardware to the open source home assistant project. He joins Chris to talk about the realities of offline smart home setups and how you can get started building custom things. Lees meer
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Pneumatic Tubes, Straight To The Home
22 januari 2024 · 1 uur 14 min
Dave returns after a few weeks on holiday to chat with Chris about robots, maker companies merging, hyped up tech at CES (and beyond), trains, power grids…and more!
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The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas
9 januari 2024 · 1 uur 20 min
Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com joins Chris for a later-than-usual holiday episode, recording on what will be known as The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas
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Pseudo Code...Pseudo Good
19 december 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Dave and Chris discuss moon landings, oscilloscopes, design decisions for limited peripherals on microcontrollers, coding, smart home programs, and more!
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Benjamin Cabé Nose Zephyr
11 december 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
Benjamin Cabé, developer advocate for the Zephyr Project, joins Chris to talk about the popular Ecosystem and Real Time Operating System (RTOS). Listen if you’d like to get started with an exciting firmware product that can really enhance your next project. Lees meer
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For a couple weeks there...
28 november 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
Chris and Dave return after a few guests shows and missed weeks when Chris was out with a new baby in the household. This week we talked about China, chip supply, RISC V, PCB tradeshows, LED factories, and more!
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Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling
21 november 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Jeff Geerling of the Jeff Geerling YouTube channel joins Chris to talk about how to explore the wide variety of computing devices, from an ESP32 monitor on your garage, all the way up to a multi-rack server.
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Accessible ASICs with Andreas Olofsson
13 november 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Andreas Olofsson is the CEO of ZeroASIC, a company that will build you a custom ASIC using chiplets. He returns to The Amp Hour to talk about what has changed in the chip(let) industry in the last 8 years and how they will lower the cost for quasi custom designs for the masses. Lees meer
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History of the Cathode Ray Tube with Kathy Joseph
5 november 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Kathy Joseph from Kathy Loves Physics joins Dave on The Amp Hour to discuss history and physics and we end up discussing the intricate history of the development of the Cathode Ray Tube.
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The RP1 and beyond with the Raspberry Pi Hardware team
23 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
James Adams and Liam Fraser of the Raspberry Pi hardware team once again join Chris to talk about the RP1 custom silicon on the Raspberry Pi 5
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Dave hanging with Fran Blanche
10 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Dave hangs out with Fran Blanche for her 4th appearance on the show. Space, Youtubing, tube testing, storage nightmares, and oopsies.
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Fan Fanboys
11 september 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Chris and Dave discuss selling low volume hardware, old stock of chips, Intel’s weird investments, creating oddball PCBs, scopes without fans, and more!
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Moving Down The Stack with Scott Williams
5 september 2023 · 1 uur 22 min
Scott Williams returns to The Amp Hour after 6 months to discuss the technical aspects of consulting, including some of the tools he reaches for when building a new product
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Garbage Ninjas
28 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
Dave and Chris discuss fitness trackers and smartwatches, boomboxes, buying off of eBay, design decisions, and contract manufacturing.
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Calibration & Repair with Ian Johnston
22 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
Dave and Ian Scott Johnston discuss the PDVS2mini DC Voltage Calibrator Source, production, China, CERN, ebay reselling, test gear, pick and place machines, assembly, automated test systems, and Youtube repair videos.
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Sad Violins for Superconductors
13 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
Chris and Dave recount modems, handsets, trains, 2n2222 transistors, RISC V, and a complete lack of knowledge of how superconductors work.
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Power Transmission with Toby Robb
31 juli 2023 · 1 uur 12 min
Fellow Aussie Toby Robb joins Dave to discuss everything related to mains power generation and transmission and his role as a linesman.
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Software Defined Power Supplies with Werner Johansson
26 juli 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
Werner Johansson of Qoitech has been working on controlling power supplies with software for a long time. He joins Chris to talk about building systems that can quickly respond to the world, including a heavy focus on battery characterization.
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Daaaamn We're Duuuummmb
18 juli 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Chris and Dave discuss efficiencies of different types of power generation, building with new chips, new test equipment, building with chiplets and feeling very dumb. All that and more!
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Building AR Headsets with Aedan Cullen
9 juli 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
Aedan Cullen has built some amazingly compact electronics in order to create Augmented Reality (AR) headsets. He joins Chris to talk about hardware challenges and building the next (small) big thing.